I am sure this has been covered and I have found some useful information by digging through the forums and browsing the web but figured I would ask here for some more tips and pointers.
I am in a temporary living situation for the next 6 months to a year and in a HOA regulated development that has a no antenna policy. So I have an OCF Dipole 133' total length with 88' on one leg and 45' on the other that is fed with 75' of rg8x into a 4:1 balun at the split. The feed comes off my tuner for about 10' before it makes a 90° andgle up and into the roof. I have the balun just laying on the apex of the roof which is 36' off the ground with the short leg going Tina tree in the front yard and the long to a tree in the back yard and then kind of zig zaged in the same general direction without ever crossing over itself or really with in 10' of itself. The legs are at a horizontal angle of 130° and both legs go out at about a 70° to the trees. I have used a few pieces of neoprene to keep the actual wire from being on the roof itself, not sure it really makes a difference or not. The roof is a standard shingle roof with no abnormal metal structures around.
My question is what should my expectations be with this current set up and a standard 100w transceiver be? This is the very first set up I have ever used, seen or set up. So just able to go off of what I can decipher from the web.
I know there are lots of variables such building material, height and angle of the antenna but I feel this might be about as good as I can get it given my current restrictions.
But maybe I am missing something obvious, or not so obvious?
I currently only have a receive capable radio and have a rx/tx on order so want to be ready to go when it arrives. So far listening has not been super successful as we have been plagued with storm here in the Minneapolis area. But I am concerned that my set up is also a major contributing factor into this.
Any suggestions or tips would be great!
73 - ke0ncp - Matt
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I am in a temporary living situation for the next 6 months to a year and in a HOA regulated development that has a no antenna policy. So I have an OCF Dipole 133' total length with 88' on one leg and 45' on the other that is fed with 75' of rg8x into a 4:1 balun at the split. The feed comes off my tuner for about 10' before it makes a 90° andgle up and into the roof. I have the balun just laying on the apex of the roof which is 36' off the ground with the short leg going Tina tree in the front yard and the long to a tree in the back yard and then kind of zig zaged in the same general direction without ever crossing over itself or really with in 10' of itself. The legs are at a horizontal angle of 130° and both legs go out at about a 70° to the trees. I have used a few pieces of neoprene to keep the actual wire from being on the roof itself, not sure it really makes a difference or not. The roof is a standard shingle roof with no abnormal metal structures around.
My question is what should my expectations be with this current set up and a standard 100w transceiver be? This is the very first set up I have ever used, seen or set up. So just able to go off of what I can decipher from the web.
I know there are lots of variables such building material, height and angle of the antenna but I feel this might be about as good as I can get it given my current restrictions.
But maybe I am missing something obvious, or not so obvious?
I currently only have a receive capable radio and have a rx/tx on order so want to be ready to go when it arrives. So far listening has not been super successful as we have been plagued with storm here in the Minneapolis area. But I am concerned that my set up is also a major contributing factor into this.
Any suggestions or tips would be great!
73 - ke0ncp - Matt
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